Copah

"We shall not stop at Copah," was the decisive rejoinder.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

Of the rush to the Copah gold field; of the almost incredible celerity with which a stretch of one hundred and forty-odd miles of construction track was opened for the enormous traffic which was instantly poured in upon it; of the rapid extension of the line to a far western outlet; of the steady advance of P.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

We are within one hundred and forty miles of Copah with a practicable railroad; we are within twelve miles with a track which must be made practicable while the band plays.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

At the next turn the town of Copah came into view, and the road became a shelf on the slope two hundred feet above the main street and paralleling it.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

Since the weather was rather threatening, and the promise of October in the inter-mountain region is not to be lightly trifled with, Mr. Colbrith pressed for an early start on the seventeen-mile buckboard jaunt to Copah over the detour survey.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

Jack Benson, if no other, would know that Ford had taken one of the shorter trails from Copah to the camp at Horse Creek.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

When we lay the rails into Copah, -- which will be the day after to-morrow, if nothing pulls in two, -- the first through passenger train, with the '01' in tow, will be right behind us.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

At the rounding of the next shouldering hill the railroad grade entered a high, broad valley, the swelling hills on either side dotted with the dumps and tunnel-openings of the Copah gold-diggers.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

Following him, and only one train behind, came Frisbie, new from a confirmatory survey of the extension beyond the Copah district.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

The MacMorroghs 'bookkeeper, a man named Merriam -- who is at present in Copah, and whose deposition I have had taken before a justice of the peace -- was detailed to win Frisbie over to the change of route -- no difficult thing, since the change was for the better.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893